The crooked picture
Retropod
The Washington Post
4.5 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Retropod is sponsored by Tiro Price. Are you looking to learn a thing or two about getting your finances |
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| 0:14.5 | Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered. |
| 0:21.6 | Jesse James, if there is anything to be learned from his death on April 3, 1882, it is this. |
| 0:29.1 | If you see a picture hanging crooked on a wall, then there is a bounty on your head. |
| 0:34.7 | Leave the picture alone. Let me explain. Jesse James and his brother Frank, |
| 0:43.0 | you might recall, let an outlaw gang that robbed, killed, and terrorized many a victim. Their brazen |
| 0:49.6 | violence and disregard for the law earned them mythical status in outlaw history. |
| 0:55.9 | By 1882, |
| 0:57.5 | there was a $5,000 bounty on Jesse James |
| 0:59.2 | head. |
| 1:00.6 | James was paranoid |
| 1:01.5 | about being caught, |
| 1:02.9 | but his gang |
| 1:03.6 | had been nearly |
| 1:04.2 | annihilated and he |
| 1:05.5 | needed help to survive, |
| 1:07.2 | so he reluctantly |
| 1:08.4 | welcomed a young fellow |
| 1:10.0 | named Robert Ford into the fold. |
| 1:15.4 | James never completely trusted Ford, |
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